The Future of Work Podcast

Patrick Belser, Chief of the ILO's Inclusive Labour Markets, Wages and Working Conditions Branch, explains how Convention No. 193 aims to promote decent work in the platform economy and what it means for digital platform workers, digital labour platforms and governments.

As the world falls short of its 2025 target to end child labour, this podcast explores what comes next. Representatives of workers, employers and the ILO discuss how to keep child labour high on the global agenda beyond 2030 and what a new global target should look like.

Podcast guests:
Federico Blanco, ILO Head of the Research and Evaluation Unit in the FUNDAMENTALS department
Cyrene Martinsson Waern, Workers' delegate, Sweden
Jacqueline Mugo, President, International Organisation of Employers (IOE)

With uneven growth and slowing productivity in many regions, can growth still be inclusive, sustainable and create decent jobs? This discussion looks at how responsible business practices shape firms, treatment of workers and the wider economy.

Podcast guests:
Mark Birrell, President, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
Abdul-Moomin Gbana, General Secretary, Ghana Mine Workers Union
Githa Roelans, Head of the Multinational Enterprises and Responsible Business Conduct Unit, ILO

The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is considered a model of strong and effective cooperation between seafarers and the global shipping industry, and its implementation is all the more crucial as the high seas continue to face unprecedented pressures and crises.

Podcast guests:
Max Johns, Former Shipowner, Vice-Chair of the Special Tripartite Committee of the MLC, Professor Maritime at HSBA, Hamburg
Carlos Muller, Secretary General of CONTTMAF National Confederation of Workers, Brazil and Chair of the ITF Sustainable Transport Committee
Jainal T. Rasul, Undersecretary, Department of Migrant Workers, Philippines
Beatriz Vacotto, Head of the Maritime Unit, International Labour Organization

In 1976, Convention No. 144 established a simple but powerful principle: governments, employers and workers should shape labour policy together. To mark the Convention's 50th anniversary, representatives of governments, employers and workers, alongside the European Union, reflect on what social dialogue has achieved and whether it can continue to help shape the future of work.

Podcast guests:
Michele Cervone D'Urso, EU Ambassador & Deputy Head of Delegation to the UN in Geneva
Omar Faruk Osman, General Secretary of the Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU)
Emma Hippolyte, Minister of Equity, Labour, Gender and Elderly Affairs of Saint Lucia
Ulan Tazhibayev, Advisor to The Chairman of the Presidium of the National Confederation of Employers of Kazakhstan “PARYZ"